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Imugene Ltd appoints Leslie Chong to chief executive officer

Imugene Ltd (ASX:IMU) has promoted Leslie Chong to the position of chief executive officer, as the company prepares for the critical milestone of dosing the patients in the gastric cancer Phase 1b/2 clinical trial in Asia.

Chong joined IMU in September 2015 from the pharmaceutical giant, Genentech, in San Francisco where she had a distinguished career across many aspects of drug development.

Imugene is a clinical stage immuno-oncology company, with its lead product being HER-Vaxx, a B Cell peptide vaccine for the treatment of gastric cancer.

The company is also developing mimotope-based immunotherapies against validated and new oncology targets.